(**A couple of years later**)
(Benjamin) Son... We need to talk...
_Yes, Father!
I just hit 11 last week and he will probably give me a gift or something but what if he tells me to find a job? I'm too young on earth standards but what about this world? normally on fantasy stories kids become adult on 15... Ah, I'm overthinking it lets listen to what he has to say.
(Benjamin) Me and your mother were talking, and you've been learning magic from the Old Mo since little but never put it to use, you probably also asked about it to him... Do you know the reason why you can't use magic?
_ Sort of... All that Uncle Mo told me it was that using magic was a sensitive topic and my parents would talk to me when the time came.
_ Wait is it time already?
(Benjamin Looking Uncomfortable) Ye... Yeah! First let me tell you why you didn't use magic and just learnt the theory part until now.
(Benjamin) Sit down for now.
(Sits down with excitement)
(Benjamin) Basically there is only a 1% chance of someone who uses magic for the first time to become a mage, and on the other 99%... well... you die.. . .
_WHAT?!?!?
(Benjamin Laughing hysterically) AHHAHHAHAHAHAH, GOTCHA, actually you really die, you explode as your body can't handle mana, but a mage in the past made a special room where you can die and be brought back to life as many times as you need!
_Still the sensation of dying shouldn't be something embraced whole as you say
(Benjamin) And it isn't but let me finish it first, once you enter the room, you'll be put on a time zone that every 5 minutes will revive anyone who dies into the state they were when entering why is tht important so that people don't have a semi death experience and once unlocking mana come out unscathed... i got off track.
(Benjamin) (**Clears throat**) Well as I was telling, me and your mother where planning on you taking the exam to join the magical academy as your talents would go to waste on a small city like this, so we decided that once you are 14 you are going to use the Time Room and unlock your magic!
_How does it work? and does it guarantee that i will unlock magic?
(Benjamin) No! The room stays open for 3 days a year to the public by paying a small fare and you can only unlock your magic until you are 15 on the public rooms
(Benjamin) Look at me for example, I only needed 1267 tries to unlock my magic that means im stronger than 40% of mages out there
_WOW!
Wait... 1267 tries multiplied by 5 minutes per try that means 105ish hours or better saying 4.5 days?!?!?! just dying and trying again and coming back and dying again and again and again!?!?!??!
_How didn't you go insane from that many tries?
(Benjamin) Actually I went, exactly 2 times but as I stated earlier it also resets your mental state so you know what happened and what you should have felt but deep down its just empty and you don't fell nothing except for the sensation of mana flowing, it was on try 30 and try 1200 actually I probably went crazy in the between but I don't remember anything cause it's all blank
_ Hmmm Interesting... So why are you telling this to me today instead of the due date?
(Benjamin) For 2 things... 1st we want you to train your body and 2nd during training I will take you to a few different places so you can become more used to life outside our city.
_As we you mean...?
(Benjamin) Me and your grandfather the patriarch of the Vermillion family and also The baron that rules this city!
_ Woah so we are nobles? why didn't no one tell me sooner?
(Benjamin) Son we are just outsiders on the family. the family is divided in 2 branches, The talented and the outsiders... To put simply people of Direct blood receive VIP treatment as soon as they are born and outsiders have to prove that they are worthy of having the name vermillion, look at me, I was an outsider, but I went to the magic academy and proved to them that I was worthy of having the vermilion name I should be on the main branch of the family but I didn't want to marry into another noble family so the just left me as an outsider.
(Benjamin) Well enough about me now let's start your training! As to begin let me see you doing 10 laps around the city...
...
And that was how my hell of training started...